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| Research article summary (published 30 Jan 2003): |
Automatic processing in spider phobia: implicit fear associations over the course of treatment.
Full Abstract
This study evaluates the cognitive model of anxiety by investigating treatment-related changes in automatic associations to evaluate schematic processing. Spider-phobic participants (n = 31) and healthy controls (n = 30) completed fear-based Implicit Association Tests (IATs), which are reaction-time measures that tap implicit associations without requiring conscious introspection. The specific tasks involved classifying pictures of snakes and spiders along with semantic categorizations (good vs.bad, afraid vs. unafraid, danger vs. safety, and disgusting vs. appealing). Phobic individuals were assessed before and after group-based exposure treatment and 2 months later, controls were assessed at matched time points. Results supported clinical applications for implicit fear associations, including prediction of phobic avoidance, and treatment sensitivity of the fear- and disgust-specific automatic associations.
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Author/s: Teachman, Bethany A (BA); Woody, Sheila R (SR);
Affiliation: Department of Psychology,Yale University, USA. bteachman@virginia.edu
Journal and publication information
Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Journal: Journal of abnormal psychology (J Abnorm Psychol), published in United States. (Language: eng)
Reference: 2003-Feb; vol 112 (issue 1) : pp 100-9
Dates: Created 2003/03/25; Completed 2003/04/23; Revised 2006/11/15;
PMID: 12653418, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)
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